STM (Stories That Matter NG)

Nigeria center for disease control highlights Lack of potable drinking water in some rural areas and urban slums; water shortage leading to reliance on people selling water in Jerry cans as one of the challenges in the current outbreak. In this story, I speak with those who have battled cholera and families trying to ensure they stay safe even with limited access to safe water in Lagos island LGA...

The nexus between climate change and health took the front burner AT COP28 in Dubai and at the The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly on 1 June 2024  during the Strategic Roundtable on climate change and health. With Nigeria currently experiencing a cholera outbreak and Lagos as one of the hotspots, i speak with experts to understand the connection between Climate Change and public health outbr...

Last October, the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency began a roll out in phases to include the HPV vaccine into routine immunization for girls. 16 states are part of this phase 1 and Enugu is one of them. This means girls between ages 9 and 14 will receive the HPV preventive vaccine for the first time.  The idea of this is to incorporate the preventive vaccine early and ensure no girl...

What can we learn from Imo state,with its implementation of the basic healthcare provision fund? This is a solutions story looking at what a health Center in Amaokwara,Nkwerre local government area of imo state(South east Nigeria) is doing to increase utilisation of the basic health care provision fund in it’s community.

One child has become severely wasted every minute of everyday since the beginning of this year.  On Monday the 18th of July 2022 in Washington DC, USAID 's Administrator Samantha Power shared some steps the usaid is taking on the State of Global food security and Nutrition. Hosted by Eleanor Crook Foundation.

A collaborative story on how climate change is driving Nigerian and Tunisian farmers and their children to malnutrition. This story is produced as a part of International Center For Journalists and Eleanor Crook Foundation’s Global nutrition and food security reporting fellowship.

Increase in temperature and irregular rainfall is pushing rural farmers in Nigeria and Tunisia to malnutrition. This is a collaborative story on how climate change is resulting to poor yields and fueling malnutrition amongst farmers and their children. Produced as part of the Global nutrition and food security reporting fellowship of International center for journalists and Eleanor crook foundatio...

In 2018,28 autonomous communities in Imo State,Southeast Nigeria openly made a declaration against female genital mutilation. 2 years later one of the communities have succeeded in recording no case of female genital mutilation. With an estimated 19.9 million survivors,Nigeria has the third highest number of women and girls who have undergoneFGM worldwide. How did the community Okpala Umuekwune in...

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Conversations around mental health in Nigeria is usually fleeting and happens mostly when there's another death by suicide. Despite the importance of our mental health to our well being and productivity in the society the topic still wields stigma. This is why i decided to sound the alarm by sharing how young people are coping with mental illness, caring for their mental health and contributing to...

This is a documentary showing how two primary healthcare centres in Eastern Nigeria keep the Covid vaccines cool. #SolutionsJournalism #VaccinesWork

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After two webinars i attended on Global nutrition organized by ICFJ i began to wonder what determines what we cook or eat? For me it's mostly time, what food can i prepare quickly and is less stressful? You can already tell that i don't like to cook. This pushed me to have this conversation. I hope you enjoy it and share with me what influences what you eat. Nutrition?  This is the first epis...

We speak with the WHO state coordinator in Imo to respond to the concerns of the people with regards to the covid-19 vaccines on #DarlingClinic

As we marked World Malaria Day on 25th April we look at COVID-19 and Malaria with Dr Katherine Makwe.

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Community effort can help reduce the spread of COVID-19 here's my journey to Ideato North LGA to find out what they are doing differently. 

Water is your human right. Claim your water right.

Since the beginning of the pandemic there's been a lot of disbelief Cynthia is one of those who doubt the existence of covid-19 so i took her on a journey to find out answers for herself. She spoke with a medical lab scientist and a member of the Covid-19 taskforce Imo state and also a public health expert to have her questions answered.  Produced by - DJxtreme Program - Darling Clinic

We paid a visit to Oguta Amaeshi a community in Oguta local government area of Imo state Nigeria and learned how they were dealing with COVID-19.

On Darling clinic today we speak with journalists from Morocco,Liberia,Uganda,Brazil and Scotland to get an update of the Covid-19  situation in their countries.

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We speak with journalists in Kano,Kogi,Calabar and South Korea to get updates.

We celebrate family physicians and talk about their role in fighting covid-19

On World hypertension day we have a conversation on how to reduce the blood pressure for those with high bp with Dr Emele